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From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Was: Re: Ada95 in Germany
Date: 2000/01/14
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"Tapio F. Marjom�ki" <tapio.marjomaki@nokia.com> writes:
> [...] In my own case (I do not speak for my company) I would say it
> is too risky to stay away from the mainstream. First I should have a
> strong evidence done by me or associates, until I could convince my
> superiors, but I can't do that evidence without a fairly complete
> set of Ada tools and support (expensive) or without spending my
> working hours, for which I don't have acceptance of my superiors...

The problem with playing the "mainstream" game, is that mainstream is
a quite volatile beast. If your time frame is less than a year or if
you can afford to rewrite everything from year to year to follow
whatever is "mainstream" at a given time, it's okay.

--LG